The Pasts, Presents and Futures of AIDS, Norway (1983–1996)

This article explores the Norwegian AIDS epidemic from a temporal perspective. 

'In six years, 50,000 will have AIDS in Norway.’To a country with a population of just over 4.1 million, the numbers published by a major national liberal newspaper in August 1985 seemed extreme. A year later, a conservative national newspaper reported on its front page: ‘AIDS figures in 1992: 200,000 Norwegians infected?’. If these predictions had been correct, AIDS would have been the biggest medical threat to the Norwegian population in the second half of the twentieth century.

Read the full article, written by Ketil Slagstad, published in Social History of Medicine

 

 

Published May 5, 2020 11:28 AM - Last modified Apr. 21, 2021 9:29 AM